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Django Forum Apps Comparison

Yvan Seth's blog entry ​Django Forum Software from December 2007 lists a few well-known discussion forum applications for Django. This page continues on the same tracks and tries to gather a comparison of essential features in those applications.

Features currently evaluated

Feature

Description

demo

If the application has a public demo site, a link and
login/password are given.

guest-post

Visitors can post messages without registration.

notify

An administrator can be notified by E-mail and/or SMS about
new messages. Note that this feature should be trivial to add
to most apps with signals and external code only.

pre-moderate

It's possible to hide new messages until they are approved by
an administrator.

post-moderate

The app provides a user interface for removing messages.

comment

Any Django model instance can have a message thread attached to it.

forum

The app provides the concept of a forum inside which message
threads are grouped.

title

Individual messages can have their own titles.

Summary of major Django forum/discussion apps and their support for the above features

This page was originally created by ​akaihola. There's a ​django-users thread about this page. I'll update information posted on that thread to this page.

Most of my conclusions about supported features are based on reading the code, not on actually testing the apps. Please make corrections in case I missed something.

Comments

​Jonathan Buchanan: django-discussion is not actively maintained or developed at this time (parts of it were extracted into ​Django MPTT) – ​django-threadedcomments looks like a more complete and feature-rich implementation of the type of functionality it provided, so I've removed discussion and put threadedcomments in its place.